The Albums You Simply Couldn't Live Without

[LemonMelon]

It's questionable, actually.

I wanted to do 11 and not 10, so I could include "Who's Next", which to me, is the Who's finest hour. That being said, I love Quadrophenia too.

Just so long as you don't pick Tommy, I'm in total agreement.

 

[cdisantis83]

Led Zeppelin: IV
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
The Who: Quadrophenia
U2: Joshua Tree/Achtung Baby/ATYCLB (not sure which)
The Doors: The Doors
The Beatles: Abbey Road
Radiohead: OK Computer
Rolling Stones: Beggar's Banquet
Oasis: (What's the Story) Morning Glory
Peter Gabriel: So

 

[1stepcloser]

U2 - The Joshua Tree
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
The Beatles - The White Album
Royksopp - Melody AM
The Cure - Disintegration
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
The Strokes - Is This It

 

[vaz02]

U2: Joshua Tree/Achtung Baby/ATYCLB
Led zeppelin - I + IV
David gray - white ladder

 

[jacobus]

U2 - Achtung Baby
T. Rex - Electric Warrior
Blur - 13
Rammstein - Reise, Reise
Rammstein - Sehnsucht
Crowded House - Together Alone
Beatles - White Album
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
U2 - POP
The Strokes - Room On Fire

 

[Tarvark]

I like looking at album covers so I'll throw it out this way:

(No Order)

 

[Tarvark]

Hmmm Scratch the last one:

 

[Zoots]

Meddle

Division Bell

Animals

Best of Blur

Best of Björk

(all notable ones I couldn't fit in)

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

- Achtung Baby
- Born To Run
- Rubber Soul
- Let It Bleed

 

[patske]

The Stone Roses * The Stone Roses
Morrissey * Vauxhall and I
The Smiths * Strangeaways here we come
The Smiths * The world won't listen
Bob Dylan * Highway 61 revisited
Bob Dylan * Blond on Blonde
Bob Dylan * blood on the tracks
Suede * Dog Man Star
Elbow * Leaders of the free world
U2 * Achtung baby
U2 * Boy
U2 * The Joshua Tree
u2 * The unforgettable fire
U2 * Pop

 

[MrPryck2U]

I simply couldn't live without Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd.

 

[Snowlock]

1. The Joshua Tree - U2
2. Don't Tell A Soul - The Replacements
3. The Soul Cages - Sting
4. Don't Turn Away - Face To Face
5. Trace - Son Volt
6. Superstar Car Wash - The Goo Goo Dolls
7. Achtung Baby - U2
8. The Rhythm of The Saints - Paul Simon
9. Shake Your Money Maker - The Black Crowes
10. X & Y - Coldplay

 

[AtomicBono]

Alien Ant Farm - ANThology
The Beatles - The White Album
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Bright Eyes - Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
Dredg - El Cielo
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love
Outkast - Aquemini
Radiohead - Kid A
U2 - Pop
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

not perfect, but it'll do.

 

[xaviMF22]

can't believe I forgot this album

 

[GibsonGirl]

Only one album per artist? Oh well, here's mine, alphabetical order:

1. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
3. Echo & The Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
4. Muse - Absolution
5. Pink Floyd - Animals (or possibly The Final Cut)
6. Queen - A Night At The Opera
7. Radiohead - OK Computer
8. Roger Waters - Amused To Death
9. Television - Marquee Moon
10. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire


I do believe I'd go nuts if I didn't get to listen to either of those at least once every two weeks. Well, I don't listen to UF all that much these days, but I'd still be very upset if I knew I couldn't.

 

[Bono's shades]

1. U2 - The Joshua Tree
2. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
3. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
4. Jeff Buckley - Grace
5. R.E.M. - Green
6. Peter Gabriel - So
7. The Clash - London Calling
8. Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
9. Led Zeppelin - IV
10. The Beatles - The White Album

 

[Lancemc]

For my R.E.M. pick, i'm actually going to swap out Out of Time for New Adventures in Hi-Fi. I'm listening to it again right now, and it's easily the best r.e.m. album to date. Fucking E-bow (The Letter). Oh my god.

 

[Zoots]

New Adventures is awesome! E-bow... so strange, so unique with Patti Smith's haunting vocals

So Fast So Numb

 

[HolyMeximofoJoe]

In no particular order:

1.Achtung Baby - U2
2.Definitley Maybe - Oasis
3.Ok Computer - Radiohead
4.The Soft Bulletin - Flaming Lips
5.Up the Bracket - Libertines
6.Revolver - Beatles
7.Is This It? - Strokes
8.Joshua Tree - U2
9.(What's the Story) Morning Glory - Oasis
10.Parachutes - Coldplay

 

[namkcuR]

In no order and for this moment:

Joshua Tree - U2
Ok Computer - Radiohead
Abbey Road - The Beatles
BloodSugarSexMagik - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin
Best Of Simon&Garfunkel(This One) - Simon&Garfunkel(I just can't have Bridge Over Troubled Water without America without Sounds Of Silence without Homeward Bound etc etc.
Absolution - The Muse
Greatest Hits - Neil Young
Thank You For The Music - ABBA(three-disc singles compilation)

A few notes:

1.I know, there are 3 compilations. These are artists where I feel they never released a definitive desert island from start to finish record, but did release a large handful of some of the greatest songs ever written.

2.Yeah, I put LZIII. Stairway is better than anything on III. Kashmir and In The Light from 'Physical Graffiti' are better than anything on III. And so on. But I think III is more consistently good than any other LZ record.

3.I wanted to include a Nirvana record and/or an old-school Metallica record, but in both cases, I couldn't settle on one without missing songs from another of that band's records. I'm weird like that.

 

[intedomine]

**** The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses **** (This Is The One!)

(What's The Story) Morning Glory - Oasis

The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths


There are no U2 albums I "can't live without." Rather U2, as a band or institution, is something I "can't live without"

 

[redhotswami]

Hmm well I think these all rank equal in awesomeness:

Carbon Leaf - Love, Loss, Hope Repeat
Guster - Lost and Gone Forever
U2 -Pop
Kanye West - College Dropout
The Fugees - The Score
Ben Lee - Awake is the New Sleep
Ani DiFranco - Up Up Up
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan - La Fiesta del Mariachi (yeah...I know...)
Anastasia The Movie Soundtrack

 

[Salome]

in no order

Brian Wilson - Smile
U2 - The unforgettable fire
R.E.M. - Out of time
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
John Coltrane - A love supreme
Palace Music - Arise therefore
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James album
AC/DC - Let there be rock
Marvin Gaye - What's goin on

 

[No spoken words]

For my R.E.M. pick, i'm actually going to swap out Out of Time for New Adventures in Hi-Fi. I'm listening to it again right now, and it's easily the best r.e.m. album to date. Fucking E-bow (The Letter). Oh my god.

Besides Murmur and Life's Rich Pageant and Document and Automatic for the People and Reckoning and Fables of the Reconstruction and Green I agree that New Adventures in Hi-Fi is easily the best R.E.M album to date.

 

[U2Man]

automatic is the best r.e.m. album.

but they're a monster group.

 

[Zoomerang96]

Adore- Smashing Pumpkins

HOT

 

[WinnieThePoo]

U2 - Joshua Tree
Genesis - Duke
OST - Kill Bill Vol1&2
Queen - Made In Heaven
Peter Gabriel - I
Pink Floyd - Animals
David Bowie - Heroes

 

[malena_u2]

1. U2 - Achtung Baby
2. Pearl Jam - Ten
3. Nirvana - Nevermind
4. Hole - Live Through This
5. U2 - The Joshua Tree
6. Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
7. The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
8. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A
9. Nirvana - In Utero
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik